GIFT   OF 


GIFT 
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Jhi  iHrmnrtam 

Sane  (Elagpol? 


Here  promise  spoke  in  every  curve ; 
The  wit  to  see,  the  heart  to  serve  ; 
In  fine  proportions  here  did  reign 
An  open  nature,  sweet  and  sane. 

Robert    Underwood  Johnson. 


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EDITH  JANE  CLATPOLE 


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Our  best  beloved  live  with  us  always;  their's  is  a  word- 
less, constant,  if  invisible  presence.  But  in  the  first  keen 
anguish  of  a  sudden  breaking  of  the  physical  bond,  comfort 
comes  from  words  of  love  and  appreciation  that  are  poured 
like  a  flood  of  golden  sunlight  from  the  hearts  of  friends. 
If  by  their  lighting  of  the  nobility,  the  sweetness,  the  dear- 
ness  of  her  "we  have  loved  long  since  and  lost  awhile"  they 
make  us  more  keenly  aware  of  the  physical  absence,  of  the 
silence,  of  the  veil  that  lies  between  There  and  Here,  these 
loving  words  still  bring  comfort  and  help  us  toward  serenity. 

It  is  with  a  wish  to  share  these  beautiful  words  from  the 
hearts  of  friends,  to  share  the  peace  and  comfort  of  them, 
that  we,  Agnes  Claypole  Moody  and  Marion  Elizabeth  Hub- 
bard,  twin  sister  and  loving  comrade,  put  them  into  this 
booklet. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH 

By  MARIAN  H.  HUBBARD 
JANUARY  1, 1870— MARCH  27, 1915 

On  the  twenty-seventh  of  March,  1915,  in  the  fullness  of  the 
California  spring,  there  died  in  Berkeley,  in  the  service  of  humanity, 
Edith  Jane  Claypole,  one  of  the  fairest  flowers  of  human  kind. 

She  was  born  in  Bristol,  England,  in  1870.  Her  father,  Edward 
Waller  Claypole,  was  a  well-known  man  of  science,  and  from  him 
and  her  mother  she  inherited  the  happy  combination  of  a  strong 
body,  a  mind  active  and  keen,  a  spirit  gentle,  fearless,  enduring. 

She  and  her  twin  sister  Agnes,  alike  in  form  and  feature,  sim- 
ilar in  tastes  and  in  abilities,  grew  up  together,  inseparable  in  their 
work  and  in  their  play.  When  they  were  nine  years  old  they  came 
to  America,  to  Akron,  Ohio,  where  their  father  taught  for  sixteen 
years  at  Buchtel  College.  Their  early  environment  was  not  one  of 
great  wealth  or  material  advantages,  but  it  was  rich  in  the  influences 
that  are  worth  far  more,  for  in  that  home  dwelt  sound  knowledge, 
love  of  truth,  and  gentle  courtesy.  They  did  not  go  to  school,  but 
were  prepared  for  college  by  their  father  and  their  mother.  This 
exceptional  training  had  its  effect  in  all  their  later  lives.  There,  at 
home,  they  learned  to  know,  at  first  hand  and  intimately,  the  world 
about  them,  the  rocks,  the  birds,  the  flowers.  There  they  learned  the 
value  of  accurate  observation,  there  they  formed  habits  of  making 
careful  judgments.  There,  also,  grew  those  qualities  of  gentleness, 
courage,  and  consideration  for  others,  that  so  endeared  them  to 
their  friends. 

The  two  sisters  entered  Buchtel  College,  and  after  taking  the 
degree  of  Ph.B.,  in  1892,  they  went  to  Cornell  for  further  work.  It 
was  at  Cornell  that  Dr.  Claypole  exhibited  her  unusual  capacity  for 
research,  her  thesis  on  the  white  blood-cells  winning  for  her,  in  1893, 
the  degree  of  M.S.  with  the  highest  honors. 

In  1894  she  came  to  Wellesley  as  instructor  in  Physiology  and 
Histology,  in  which  post  she  remained  for  five  years.  During  two 
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years  of  that  time,  in  the  absence  of  Professor  Willcox,  she  acted  as 
head  of  the  Department  of  Zoology,  and  during  those  two  years 
her  sister  Agnes  was  also  an  instructor. 

In  1899,  entering  upon  her  work  in  medicine,  she  went  to  Cor- 
nell and  completed  the  first  two  years  in  the  Medical  Department, 
assisting  meanwhile  in  Physiology.  Owing  to  the  illness  of  her 
mother,  she  did  not  complete  her  work  in  the  east,  but  went  to 
Pasadena  in  1901.  For  a  time  she  taught  science  in  Throop 
Polytechnic  Institute  in  Pasadena.  Later,  and  while  acting  as 
pathologist  in  the  office  of  Dr.  Norman  Bridge  of  Los  Angeles, 
she  finished  her  medical  course  and  received  the  degree  of  M.D. 
in  the  University  of  California,  Southern  Branch,  in  1904,  special- 
izing in  Pathology. 

After  that  came  eight  years  of  practice,  as  pathologist,  in  Pasa- 
dena and  Los  Angeles,  years  which  brought  her  recognition  in  scien- 
tific and  professional  circles,  and  which  drew  to  her  many  lasting 
friends. 

Then  came  the  opportunity  for  which  her  special  gifts  of 
research,  her  special  training,  her  professional  experience,  had  made 
her  ripe.  She  joined,  in  1912,  as  a  volunteer  worker,  the  department 
of  Pathology  at  the  University  of  California,  in  Berkeley,  under  the 
leadership  of  Dr.  F.  P.  Gay.  By  her  services  she  made  herself  so 
invaluable  that  she  was  appointed  Research  Associate,  which  position 
she  held  at  the  time  of  her  death. 

Many  papers  attest  her  powers  of  productive  research.  Two 
lines  of  work  have  brought  her  special  distinction,  one  in  the  group 
of  lung  diseases,  the  other,  undertaken  with  Dr.  Gay,  in  typhoid 
immunization. 

Her  gifts,  herself,  she  held  ready  always,  everywhere,  for  the 
call  of  need.  In  this  great  European  crisis  she  longed  for  active 
service.  The  call  for  service  came,  in  a  request  from  Dr.  William 
Osier,  head  of  the  medical  work  in  connection  with  the  English 
army,  for  the  new  typhoid  vaccine  for  the  French  and  English 
troops.  She  responded  by  devoting  herself  to  the  preparation  of 
this  vaccine,  overseeing  the  work,  and  herself  attending  to  many 
necessary  details.  In  order  to  make  the  keeping  of  the  material 
more  certain,  it  was  by  a  new  process  finally  dried.  Though  pro- 
tected by  her  own  vaccination  from  all  ordinary  infection,  she  finally 
yielded  to  the  unusual  exposure,  and  succumbed  to  an  attack  of 

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typhoid,  which  was  for  a  time  so  mild  as  to  be  undetected,  until  it 
resulted  in  perforation  of  the  intestine. 

Wellesley  College  has  felt  the  influence  of  many  unusual  per- 
sonalities, and  among  these  Dr.  Claypole  has  left  an  impress  on  the 
minds  and  hearts  of  all  who  knew  her  in  those  early  years. 

On  the  academic  side  she  was  the  embodiment  of  the  spirit 
of  science,  of  the  spirit  of  research.  Her  interest  in  nature  was 
deep  and  genuine,  her  acquaintance  with  it  life-long  and  intimate. 
In  her  devotion  to  truth  there  was  no  shadow  of  self-seeking. 
The  world  to  her,  the  world  which  she  revealed  to  her  students, 
was  the  living  world,  the  world  of  which  she  and  they  were  an  inti- 
mate part.  Through  her  it  became  beautiful,  significant.  Even  her 
gentle  humor,  which  ran  like  a  golden  thread  through  the  serious 
fabric  of  her  make-up,  spoke  of  a  deep  understanding  and  a  tender 
sympathy,  that  extended  to  the  whole  realm  of  living  things. 

Having  herself  grown  up  in  a  scientific  atmosphere,  the  method 
of  science  was  as  easy  for  her  as  breathing,  it  was  a  method  of 
dealing  with  problems  of  every  day.  Her  students,  working  with 
her,  could  not  fail  to  imbibe  something  of  her  spirit  of  investigation, 
could  not  fail  to  acquire  somewhat  her  ways  of  doing  things. 

There  are  figures  that  memory  makes  live  amid  Wellesley's 
green  meadows  and  wooded  hills,  and  among  them  are  those  of  two 
fair  young  English  girls, — brown  corduroyed  forms,  expressing  in 
every  movement  strength  and  grace  and  bounding  health.  We  see 
them  swinging  the  hockey  stick  in  Stone  Hall  Cove ;  bicycling  over 
the  country  roads ;  merrily  mocking  the  rest  in  masquerade ;  gay 
comrades  and  good  sports,  with  older  or  younger  fellow  students. 

Memory,  musing  on  this  one  who  is  gone,  loves  to  linger  over 
the  gentleness  of  that  face,  with  its  clear  gray  eyes  and  firm,  curving 
lips,  passing  by  easy  stage  from  sweet  seriousness  to  tender  smile 
or  whole-hearted  merry  laughter.  The  heart  grows  warm  again  in 
the  sunshine  of  that  presence,  it  draws  comfort  from  those  springs 
of  tenderness,  it  takes  courage  from  that  steadfastness  and  strength. 

That  friendliness,  the  sudden  vanishing  of  which  has  left  so 
many  grieving,  was  the  manifestation  of  the  deepest  motive  of  her 
being.  It  reached  to  the  humblest  of  living  creatures,  it  found  its 
highest  expression  in  the  service  of  humanity.  It  covered  the  sick, 
the  unfortunate ;  it  bound  to  her  all  co-workers.  It  was  the  sign  of 
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what  was  most  significant  in  all  her  relations,  as  woman,  teacher, 
investigator,  physician,  comrade  and  friend. 

The  outstanding  impression  of  this  life  is  that  of  a  consistent, 
harmonious  whole.  In  this  equal  development  of  all  sides  of  her 
nature,  in  the  perfect  attuning  of  all  its  parts,  lay  the  secret  of  her 
charm.  Her  body  was  a  fit  temple  for  such  a  mind  and  spirit.  In 
all  things  there  was  in  her  a  fine  balance.  She  was  fearless,  but  not 
rash;  resolute,  but  not  stubborn;  conscientious,  but  not  morbid;  she 
was  unbound  by  convention,  yet  courteous  and  law-abiding ;  she 
possessed  sentiment  without  sentimentality ;  she  was  womanly,  but 
not  effeminate ;  tender,  yet  strong.  Science  to  her  was  no  cloak  to 
be  put  off  or  on,  but  a  part  of  her  very  being.  Through  it  she  had 
gained  that  sense  of  the  unity  of  life,  that  consciousness  of  the  long, 
upward-tending  struggle,  which  gave  her  a  vision  for  humanity. 
It  supplied  her  also  with  the  tools  by  which  she  might  work  with 
the  rest  for  the  coming  of  that  better  day.  And  now,  in  her 
death,  she  has  ended,  with  the  gift  of  herself,  her  life  of  service. 


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PUBLICATIONS 

An  Investigation  of  the  Blood  of  Necturus  and  Cryptobranchus. 
Proceedings  of  The  American  Microscopical  Society,  1893,  Vol.  XV. 

Directions  for  Laboratory  Work  in  Physiology  at  Wellesley  Col- 
lege. 

An  Interesting  Abnormality.  Journal  of  Applied  Microscopy, 
Vol  II,  No.  2. 

Notes  on  Comparative  Histology  of  Blood  and  Muscle.  Trans- 
actions of  the  American  Microscopical  Society,  1896,  Vol.  XVIII. 

Assistant  Editor  of  Climatology  in  Year  Book  of  Medicine, 
1904-1911. 

On  the  Classification  of  the  Streptothrices,  Particularly  in 
Their  Relation  to  Bacteria.  The  Journal  of  Experimental  Medicine, 
1913,  Vol.  XVII. 

The  Typhoid  Carrier  State  in  Rabbits  as  a  Method  of  Deter- 
mining the  Comparative  Immunizing  Value  of  Preparations  of  the 
Typhoid  Bacillus.  Gay  and  Claypole.  Archives  of  Internal  Medi- 
cine, 1913,  Vol.  XII. 

Specific  and  Extreme  Hyperleukocytosis  Following  the  Injec- 
tion of  Bacillus  Typhosus  in  Immunized  Rabbits.  Gay  and  Clay- 
pole.  The  Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  1913, 
Vol.  LX. 

Human  Streptotrichosis  and  Its  Differentiation  from  Tuber- 
culosis. Archives  of  Internal  Medicine,  1914,  Vol.  XIV. 

Specific  Hyperleukocytosis.  Gay  and  Claypole.  Archives  of 
Internal  Medicine,  1914,  Vol.  XIV. 

An  Experimental  Study  of  Methods  of  Prophylactic  Immuniza- 
tion   Against    Typhoid    Fever.      Gay    and    Claypole.      Archives    of 
Internal  Medicine,  1914,  Vol.  XIV. 
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LETTERS 

DR.  MARY  B.  JEWETT,  FLORENCE  VILLA,  FLORIDA 

Another  link  is  broken  in  the  chain  that  binds  us  to  the  blessed 
days  that  were,  in  the  passing  of  Edith  Claypole.  It  was  my  great 
privilege — and  it  is  my  great  joy  to  remember  having  had  her  in 
my  class  room  at  Buchtel  College  in  the  study  of  English  Literature. 
Such  a  quick  and  keen  intelligence,  such  a  complete  sympathy  and 
appreciation  of  all  good  things  warm  any  teacher's  heart,  and  stim- 
ulate her  to  give  of  her  best  and  be  her  best;  such  students  as 
Edith  make  teachers  alert. 

There  is  a  sacred  spot  in  my  memory :  a  simple  home  that  held 
a  great  family  group.  It  is  in  that  setting,  in  the  home  of  a  college 
professor  in  a  middle  western  state,  that  I  best  remember  Edith 
Claypole.  Her  father,  Dr.  E.  W.  Claypole,  the  simple,  sincere, 
great-minded  scholar  and  eminent  scientist ;  his  dear  companion  and 
helper,  also  a  scientist,  a  woman  of  the  keenest  intelligence  and 
warmest  heart,  and  most  genial  sense  of  humor,  whom  it  was  a 
delight  to  know ;  and  the  inseparable  sturdy,  wholesome,  happy  twin 
sisters,  Agnes  and  Edith,  boon  companions,  eagerly  and  joyfully 
taking  in  the  good  things  that  each  day's  living  brought  them  in 
such  a  blessed  home. 

It  is  indeed  hard  to  realize  that  dear  family  of  plain  living  and 
high  thinking  can  no  more  gather  together  here,  and  that  only 
one  is  left ;  but  it  is  a  blessed  privilege  to  have  been  one  of  such  a 
group ;  and  to  us  who  had  the  privilege  of  a  welcome  to  such  a 
home,  the  memory  grows  more  precious  with  the  passing  years.  All 
life  is  made  richer  by  such  memories.  In  the  manner  of  our  Dr. 
Edith's  passing,  in  the  devotion  to  all  the  highest  aims  for  which 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Claypole  always  stood,  she  has  shown  herself  worthy 
of  her  lineage. 

MISS  DORA   E.  MERRILL,  EMMET,  IDAHO 

The  world  will  give  her  her  meed  of  praise  for  her  splendid 

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scientific  work,  but  my  mind  goes  back  to  the  old  college  days,  to 
our  two  dear  girls.  Life  was  full  of  great  events  even  in  those 
happy  days,  particularly  after  a  Saturday's  tramp  with  your  beloved 
father.  In  all  the  years  that  have  passed,  your  home  has  meant  in 
my  life  the  highest  example  of  simple  living  and  high  thinking  I 
have  ever  known.  How  vividly  we  remember  happy  suppers  after 
busy  days  when  that  dear  tyrant  of  the  tea-pot  refused  to  take  off 
the  cosy  till  all  were  ready  for  the  second  cup  of  tea !  Father, 
Mother,  Edith  are  gone,  but  that  home  is  a  radiant,  living  reality 
that  can  never  die. 

PRUDENCE  WINTER  KOFOID,  BERKELEY,  CALIFORNIA 

I  see  her  face,  noble,  serene,  kindly,  and  then  through  many  a 
memory  I  see  a  vista  of  mountains,  those  great  ranges  you  and  I 
know  so  well,  with  sunshine  on  their  summits.  I  feel  at  once  an 
uplift  of  my  heart,  as  if  my  spirit  were  summoned  from  the  trivial 
and  the  commonplace.  I  feel  that  with  all  Edith's  great  and  varied 
interests  in  life,  which  you  in  these  days  are  counting  over  in  such 
loving  memory,  in  no  environment  was  her  soul  so  perfectly  attuned 
as  in  that  of  the  great  out-of-doors.  She  was  not  away  from  home, 
she  was  entering  into  her  own.  There  was  no  sense  of  the 
abnormal,  she  shouldered  her  pack,  she  walked  her  trail,  she 
studied  the  trees,  the  flowers,  every  mountain  view.  She  dropped 
everything  and  entered  upon  an  exciting  fishing  escapade  with  the 
spirit  of  a  young  boy.  A  dip  in  a  mountain  stream  was  a  keen 
delight.  If  all  must  share  in  bringing  comfort  out  of  possible  dis- 
comfort, with  what  zest  she  did  far  more  than  her  share ! 

Today  we  believe  her  soul  wanders  in  other  spacious  parts  of 
the  Father's  universe.  Perhaps  the  mountains  and  rivers  are  even 
higher  and  deeper.  Perhaps  the  mysteries  of  power,  and  knowledge 
and  love  press  even  closer  to  the  spirit.  I  am  thinking  she  is  still 
serene,  and  that  with  open  heart  and  child-like  spirit  she  walks  her 
way  undismayed,  poised,  at  home  with  it  all. 

MARY  ROBERTS  COOLIDGH,  BERKELEY,  CALIFORNIA 

A  friend  is  like  a  picture — one  has  to  be  some  distance  off  in 
order  to  see  it  as  a  whole  and  to  appreciate  to  the  full  its  unified 
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beauty.  During  the  last  two  years,  especially,  I  had  come  to  love 
Edith  Claypole,  her  personality,  her  poise,  her  abilities,  but  it  is 
only  now  that  she  is  gone  that  I  begin  to  see  how  rare  a  combina- 
tion of  personality  and  talent  she  embodied.  Many  women  are 
large-minded  and  refined,  giving  themselves  constantly  to  those  who 
make  demands  on  their  sympathies ;  many  women  are  cultivated, 
charming  in  conversation,  socially  gracious;  a  few,  here  and  there, 
are  rarely  talented  in  art  or  literature;  a  very  few  are  really  excep- 
tional in  the  field  of  science. 

Edith  Claypole  was  all  of  these  things.  Yet  a  stranger  meeting 
her  might  think  her  merely  a  charming,  genial  lady,  and  would  have 
to  be  told  by  her  proud  friends  that  she  was  also  a  scientist  of 
growing  international  reputation,  in  an  especially  difficult  subject. 
She  never  talked  of  herself  and  her  work  in  the  self-centered  man- 
ner assumed  by  many  persons  of  rare  ability;  if  she  talked  at  all  of 
her  work  it  was  in  a  large,  detached  way,  as  though  she  were  only 
one  of  many  enthusiastic  research  workers. 

We  who  knew  her  loved  her  for  what  she  was  to  us  in  many 
different  ways,  and  according  to  our  natures ;  but  her  departure  has 
given  a  new  perspective  to  her  life.  Now  we  know  that  she  was  a 
rare  human  being,  with  a  larger  endowment  both  of  intellectual 
ability  and  of  sweet  and  generous  character  than  often  falls  even  to 
the  unusually  good  and  capable. 


DR.   NORMAN  BRIDGE,  LOS  ANGELES,  CALIFORNIA 

Edith  Claypole  served  as  pathologist  in  our  medical  office  in 
Los  Angeles  nine  years,  from  1902  to  1911.  During  the  first  two 
years  she  was  an  undergraduate  medical  student,  and  was  able  to 
give  us  only  about  two  hours  each  day,  after  her  lecture  hours 
were  over.  After  her  graduation  from  the  medical  school  of  the 
University  of  California  (Los  Angeles  branch)  in  1904  she  gave 
us  her  entire  time,  except  when  away  on  vacation. 

Her  work  was  much  hampered  during  the  earlier  years  for 
want  of  room  and  laboratory  facilities.  After  the  office  was  moved 
to  the  Auditorium  building  she  had  better  facilities — in  a  little 
laboratory  room,  but  not  sufficient  for  the  best  conditions  of  easy 
work.  She  did  the  routine  drudgery  in  pathology  for  a  group  of  a 

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half  dozen  practising  physicians  and  surgeons;  she  helped  them  in 
manifold  ways ;  by  her  thorough  knowledge  of  pathology  and  tech- 
nic  and  by  many  thoughtful  suggestions,  she  pointed  the  way  to 
better  scientific  standards.  She  made  cultures  and  vaccines  and 
developed  a  remarkable  knowledge  and  judgment  in  diagnosis  from 
the  standpoint  of  the  pathologist. 

Here  she  began  her  work  on  Streptotricosis  and  its  relation  to 
tuberculosis,  which  she  carried  forward  after  she  went  to  the  Uni- 
versity of  California,  making  valuable  contributions  to  the  knowl- 
edge of  the  world  on  this  subject. 

She  early  showed  a  mental  bent  towards  research,  and  when  she 
left  to  enter  this  field  exclusively  at  the  University,  the  deep  regret 
of  the  whole  office — doctors  and  assistants  alike — at  losing  her  was 
tempered  by  the  thought  that  she  was  now  going  to  have  a  better 
opportunity  to  do  the  things  she  liked  best  to  do,  and  for  which  she 
was  fitted  as  few  women  and  men  have  ever  been. 

Her  life  in  our  office,  as  everywhere,  was  characterized  by  true 
womanliness,  magnaminity,  and  a  freedom  from  pettiness  that  is  the 
failing  of  so  many  of  us.  She  had  a  fine  sense  of  humor ;  she  loved 
animals  and  flowers;  she  had  a  broad  vision  of  life  and  living — she 
was  incapable  of  being  silly  or  hysterical  about  anything.  Every- 
body in  the  office  was  made  better  by  her  presence,  every  doctor, 
unconsciously  perhaps  but  certainly,  was  led  to  higher  efficiency  in 
his  professional  work. 

To  her  associates  in  professional  work  in  Los  Angeles  she  was 
always  the  same  characterful,  refined  woman,  with  all  the  commend- 
able qualities  that  belong  to  womanhood,  and  with  none  to  regret 
or  criticise.  While  they  mourn  her  loss  they  glory  in  her  ability, 
her  character  and  her  achievements;  and  they  are  thankful  for  the 
uplifting  memory  of  an  association,  in  a  work  of  wide  beneficence, 
with  a  charming,  unselfish  and  exalted  personality. 


DR.  HENRY  B.  STBHMAN,  PASADENA,  CALIFORNIA 

Dr.  Claypole  was  so  thoroughly  efficient  in  all  she  undertook 
that  it  is  with  difficulty  that  one  determines  in  what  special  line  of 
work  she  excelled  above  another. 

If  I  were  to  select  a  work  that  would  show  her  to  more 
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advantage  than  any  other,  because  it  is  more  exacting,  I  should 
choose  her  hospital  work.  Any  one  who  has  had  any  considerable 
experience  in  hospital  service  knows  that  it  is  here,  that  which  a 
man  or  woman  really  is,  is  laid  bare. 

A  physician  in  private  practice  may  cast  a  spell  of  wonder 
over  the  laity  and  overawe  them  by  what  he  reputes  himself  to  be, 
but  in  the  team  work  of  a  hospital,  there  are  no  fictitious  values, 
a  man  counts  for  what  he  is  and  no  more. 

Honesty  is  not  at  a  premium,  for  here  is  a  realm  where  hon- 
esty is  the  only  coin  that  passes  current.  Efficiency  is  not  only 
highly  praised  and  prized,  but  it  is  the  only  quality  that  can  com- 
mand and  demand  proper  professional  respect  alike  from  patients 
and  physicians. 

The  man  who  is  not  well  equipped,  unless  perhaps  he  is  so 
blind  to  his  shortcomings  that  he  can  not  see  them,  neither  wants 
the  hospital,  nor  does  the  hospital  want  him.  The  hospital  is  really 
in  search  of  those  who  are  equipped  and  qualified  by  virtue  of  what 
they  are,  by  what  they  have  done  and  what  they  expect  to  do.  For 
a  man  of  low  ideals,  narrow  vision  and  selfish  interests,  there  is  no 
room  in  a  well  organized  altruistic  hospital.  Dr.  Claypole  proved 
her  title  of  highest  excellence  in  her  hospital  work. 

DR.  CHARLES  D.  LOCKWOOD,  PASADENA,  CALIFORNIA 

Dr.  Claypole  was  one  of  those  rare  and  lofty  spirits,  whose  life 
and  conversation  make  real  the  ideals  and  dreams  of  mankind. 
Her  going  leaves  a  great  vacancy,  not  alone  in  the  lives  of  her 
friends,  but  in  the  world  of  science  where  she  labored  so  skilfully 
and  so  joyously.  Her  friendship  has  been  one  of  the  great  inspira- 
tions of  my  life,  and  the  memory  of  her  great,  noble,  generous 
nature  will  ever  be  a  guiding  influence. 

MISS  LUCY  STEBBINS,  DEAN  OF  WOMEN,  UNIVERSITY 
OF  CALIFORNIA 

Her  strength  and  steady  fidelity  in  the  search  for  truth  have 
been  of  untold  value  to  her  chosen  field  of  science  and  in  the  world 
of  women's  work. 

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MRS.   WILLIAM  PALMER  LUCAS,  SAN  FRANCISCO, 
CALIFORNIA 

Her   service   was    so   splendid,   her   interests    so   inspiring,   but 
best  of  all  was  the  humanness  of  her  warm,  vital  personality. 


MRS.  AURELIA   H.  RHINE ARDT,  PRESIDENT  OF  MILLS 
COLLEGE,  CALIFORNIA 

How  much  of  womanliness,  of  scholarship,  of  dignified  knowl- 
edge and  industry,  an  exemplar  of  what  is  best  in  the  world! 

DR.    HERBERT   C.    MOFFITT,   DEAN    OF    THE   MEDICAL 
SCHOOL,  UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA 

Any  one  knowing  her  must  appreciate  both  her  personality  and 
her  brilliant  mind. 


THOMAS  D.  ELIOT,  PULLMAN  UNIVERSITY, 
WASHINGTON 

When  such  as  she  leaves  us  it  is  indeed  a  challenge  to  us  who 
remain  to  pick  up  the  torch  and  carry  it  on. 

THE  LATE  DR.  JOHN  B.  MURPHY,  CHICAGO,  ILLLINOIS 

We  all  admired  her  and  esteemed  her.  She  was  the  highest 
exponent  of  womanhood  in  scientific  capacity,  fidelity  of  purpose, 
and  modesty  in  great  achievements.  Her  name  will  be  a  beacon  for 
future  generations. 

PROFESSOR  FREDERICK  PARKER  GAY,  M.  D.}  UNIVER- 
SITY OF  CALIFORNIA 

(From -a  report  to  the  President  of  the  University  of  California) 

It  is  with  the  greatest  sadness  and  sense  of  personal  and  public 
loss  that  we  record  the  death  of  Edith  J.  Claypole,  Research  Asso- 
ciate in  Pathology.  Dr.  Claypole  came  to  us  three  years  ago  from 
Pasadena,  and  volunteered  her  services  in  the  investigation  of  cer- 
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tain  infectious  diseases  that  had  interested  her  as  a  student  of 
Biology  and  medicine  for  several  years.  The  department  was  able, 
fortunately,  to  offer  her  facilities  for  her  work  from  the  first,  and 
later  some  appreciation  of  the  results  obtained  by  a  definite  posi- 
tion on  the  staff.  The  charm  and  gentleness  of  her  spirit  soon 
endeared  her  to  all  who  came  in  contact  with  her.  Her  skill  and 
ingenuity  in  experimentation  gradually  led  to  the  accumulation  of 
important  data  that  were  critically  examined  and  presented  with 
convincing  logic  and  conclusiveness.  She  first  collected  from  vari- 
ous parts  of  the  world  representative  cultures  of  a  group  of  micro- 
organisms (Streptotrices)  that  had  long  been  recognized  as  pro- 
ducing certain  diseases  in  man  and  animals.  She  pointed  out  the 
relation  between  these  disease  processes  and  their  similiarity  to  the 
well  recognized  disease,  tuberculosis.  It  could  be  shown  by  certain 
immunologic  tests  that  this  group  of  micro-organisms  could  be 
caused  to  show  regular  gradations  from  the  bacteria  toward  the 
higher  budding  fungi.  Dr.  Claypole  then  devised  a  simple  test,  a 
skin  reaction,  by  which  human  cases  of  this  disease  could  be 
detected  and  separated  from  tuberculosis,  from  which  they  are 
indistinguishable  by  ordinary  methods.  The  possibility  of  a  specific 
therapy  was  in  mind  when  she  was  taken  from  us.  At  least  Edith 
Claypole  lived  to  know  that  her  work  was  discussed  and  appreci- 
ated. 

But  her  mind  was  by  no  means  fixed  on  her  own  and  personal 
problems.  She  readily  offered  her  constant  co-operation  and 
thought  on  problems  that  were  first  in  the  minds  of  others.  Although 
a  free  lance  in  the  laboratory  she  aided  in  instruction  and  willingly 
took  over  time  consuming  examinations  that  might  help  another's 
investigation  or  aid  in  the  treatment  of  a  patient. 

Her  outside  interests,  while  never  intruding  on  the  more  spe- 
cific tasks  she  had  set  herself,  were  in  the  many  lines  that  tend 
to  social  betterment,  particularly  in  those  aspects  that  as  a  physician 
she  was  fitted  to  help.  A  woman  of  rare  personality  and  ability,  we 
feel  that  we  shall  not  see  her  like  again. 

It  is  with  a  peculiar  feeling  of  appreciation  that  we  learn  that 
friends  of  Edith  Claypole  have  established  a  memorial  fund*  in  the 
University  of  California  to  perpetuate  her  name  and  aid  in  the  con- 
tinuance of  her  work. 

*The   Edith   Claypole  Memorial    Research   Fund   in   Pathology. 

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RESOLUTIONS 

ALAMHDA   COUNTY  MEDICAL  ASSOCIATION 

Whereas,  The  cause  of  scientific  medicine  has  lost  an  invaluable 
worker  through  the  death  of  Dr.  Edith  J.  Claypole ;  and, 

Whereas,  Through  original  research  she  perfected  a  simple 
method  for  the  differential  diagnosis  between  streptotricosis  and 
tuberculosis,  thereby  eliminating  the  previously  existing  confusion 
between  these  diseases;  and, 

Whereas,  She  participated  in  reasearch  that  resulted  in  the 
improvement  of  typhoid  vaccine,  thereby  increasing  the  efficiency  of 
this  indispensible  means  for  the  prevention  of  typhoid  fever ;  and, 

Whereas,  She  was  active  in  presenting  the  facts  of  public  health 
to  social  and  educational  organizations,  thereby  furthering  popular 
knowledge  of  preventive  medicine ;  now,  therefore,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  the  Alameda  County  Medical  Association  expres- 
ses its  profound  sense  of  loss  and  extends  its  sympathy  to  the 
bereaved  relatives ;  and,  be  it  further 

Resolved,  That  these  resolutions  be  spread  on  the  minutes  of 
the  Association  and  a  copy  be  sent  to  her  sister. 

ROMILDA  PARONI 
WILBUR  A.  SAWYER 
JOHN  N.  FORCE 

ALPHA  HP  SILO  N  IOTA 

On  March  the  27th,  1915,  an  irretrievable  loss  came  to  us  through 
the  death  of  Edith  J.  Claypole,  our  beloved  Mystic  High  Priestess ; 
be  it,  therefore 

Resolved,  That  with  reverence  for  her  memory  the  Zeta  and 
Iota  Chapters  of  Alpha  Epsilon  Iota,  in  joint  meeting  assembled, 
express  their  sense  of  bereavement  and  their  deep  appreciation  of 
her  work  and  character. 
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In  her  death  the  world  has  lost  one  who  made  it  better  for  hav- 
ing lived ;  the  women  of  our  state  have  been  deprived  of  one,  who 
in  all  ways  stood  for  the  highest  womanhood ;  the  profession  has 
lost  a  worker,  who  with  clear  mind,  earnest  endeavor  and  untiring 
zeal  was  a  pioneer  in  medical  research ;  the  Fraternity  mourns  a 
loyal  comrade  and  unselfish  leader ;  therefore  be  it 

Resolved,  That  these  two  chapters  express  the  deepest  sym- 
pathy to  the  sorrowing  members  of  her  family ;  and,  be  it  further 

Resolved,  That  these  resolutions  be  spread  on  the  minutes  of 
the  two  chapters  and  a  copy  be  sent  to  the  family. 

GEORGIA  E.  THOMPSON 
ETHEL  M.  WATTUS 
FLORENCE  CHUBB 
ALICE  FREELAND  MAXWELL 

WELLES LEY  COLLEGE 

The  Science  Club  of  Wellesley  College  records  its  sense  of  loss 
in  the  death  of  Doctor  Edith  Jane  Claypole,  a  charter  member  of 
the  club,  its  first  secretary,  and  active  both  in  its  foundation  and 
its  early  conduct.  Descended  from  a  father  who  was  himself  a  dis- 
tinguished man  of  science,  and  receiving  her  early  education  at 
home,  she  was  by  inheritance  and  training  exceptionally  fitted  for 
the  line  of  work  to  which  she  chose  to  devote  her  life.  She  early 
exhibited  unusual  capacity  for  research ;  in  the  field  of  cell-studies 
and  pathology  her  many  papers  are  evidence  of  her  power  of 
achievement.  As  a  teacher  she  opened  the  eyes  of  her  students  to 
the  beauty  and  significance  of  living  things,  revealed  to  them  the 
method  of  science,  and  inspired  them  with  the  high  nobility  of  its 
aims.  Members  of  other  departments  recognized  the  open-minded- 
ness  and  appreciation  that  marked  her  attitude  towards  all  branches 
of  scientific  activity.  As  a  physician  she  early  became  interested  in 
preventive  medicine,  and  to  its  advance  she  devoted  herself  with- 
out reserve.  Through  her  researches  in  pathology,  particularly  in 
certain  obscure  cases  of  infection  and  typhoid  immunization,  she 
won  distinction,  and  in  the  application  of  these  researches  to  the 
needs  of  humanity,  she  has  crowned  her  service  with  the  gift  of 
her  life.  Her  charm  of  manner  and  winsomeness  of  spirit,  with  its 

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strong  and  wholesome  nature,  quick  and  tender  in  its  response  to 
the  needs  of  others,  and  her  unfailing  steadfastness  in  friendship, 
endeared  her  to  large  circles.  We,  the  members  of  the  Science 
Club,  express  our  sadness  in  the  loss  of  a  comrade,  and  our  appre- 
ciation of  her  service  to  science. 

Signed  in  behalf  of  the  Science  Club, 

ELLEN  HAYES 
MARION    E.    HUBBARD 

Signed  in  behalf  of  the  Academic  Council  and  of  the  Faculty, 

CHARLOTTE   F.    ROBERTS,    Secretary, 
ELLEN  F.  PENDLETON,  President. 


ASSOCIATION  OF  COLLEGIATE  ALUMNAE 

The  Association  of  Collegiate  Alumnae,  in  recording  its  sense 
of  loss  in  the  departure  from  life  of  Dr.  Edith  Claypole,  may  remind 
its  members  how  closely  her  activities  were  linked  with  its  own 
larger  aims.  The  Association  believes  that  a  liberal  education  is 
good  for  women ;  that  women  so  educated  are  a  help  to  the  progress 
of  the  race.  It  urges  in  every  way — by  legislation,  by  the  written 
and  the  spoken  word — the  right  of  women  to  the  broadest  training; 
and  it  has  accepted  the  responsibility  of  shaping  that  education  not 
in  formal  curricula  but  in  the  exceptional  preparation  of  women 
fitted  for  research.  It  believes  moreover  that  the  special  services 
rendered  by  original  thinkers  and  workers  is  not  incompatible  with 
family  life,  individual  beauty  of  character  and  a  large  neighborliness. 

We  cannot,  therefore,  permit  to  vanish  from  our  midst  without 
remark,  one  who  exemplified  in  an  exceptional  degree  a  rare  type  of 
womanhood  and,  at  the  same  time,  the  finest  scholarship.  In  her 
intimate  relations  she  was  habitually  kind  and  unselfish ;  to  the  com- 
munity she  was  always  giving  more  service  than  her  neighbors 
knew.  In  those  very  last  days  she  was  making  a  personal  investiga- 
tion of  some  of  the  difficult  problems  among  girls  employed  on  the 
"Zone"  of  the  Pacific-Panama  International  Exposition ;  and  in 
speaking  to  groups  of  girls  in  sorority  and  club  houses  on  medicine 
as  a  profession  for  women ;  while  always  setting  before  those  who 
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came  to  her  for  advice  the  ideal  of  high  devotion  to  whatever  voca- 
tion they  chose. 

Not  only  in  these  personal  contacts,  but  in  her  own  practice  of 
the  physician's  calling,  she  pursued  the  ideal  rather  than  the  com- 
mercial choice.  Leaving  to  others  the  immediate  relief  of  suffering, 
for  years  she  had  been  devoting  herself  to  the  discovery  and  removal 
of  the  deeper  causes  of  disease,  and  was  in  the  midst  of  such  labor 
when  the  end  came.  Research  work  in  the  bacteriology  of  typhoid, 
tuberculosis,  and  other  related  and  obscure  forms  of  disease  had 
made  her  widely  known  to  the  world  of  science,  and  her  discoveries 
will  form  the  basis  of  a  new  treatment  and  further  advance  toward 
prevention  and  cure. 

Dr.  Edith  Claypole  offered  the  utmost  that  a  human  being  can 
give — life  itself — to  the  cause  of  science.  For  the  sake  of  new  and 
essential  knowledge  she  undertook  investigation  involving  personal 
danger  only  to  become  another  of  those  heroes  of  peace  who  give 
their  lives  for  the  advancement  of  mankind.  The  Association  of 
Collegiate  Alumnae,  in  grief  yet  with  pride,  places  upon  its  roll  of 
beloved  and  honored  members  who  have  gone  onward,  the  name  of 
Edith  Claypole,  who  died  on  Saturday,  March  27th,  1915,  in  order 
that  others  might  be  saved  from  suffering. 

MARY  ROBERTS  COOLIDGE 
PRUDENCE   WINTER    KOFOID 
MARY  GORDON  HOLWAY 


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THE  EDITH  J.  CLAYPOLE  MEMORIAL 
RESEARCH  FUND  IN  PATHOLOGY 

ROBERT  ORTON  MOODY 

The  sudden  taking  away  in  the  prime  of  life  of  an  investigator 
so  gifted  and  so  enthusiastic  in  research  as  Dr.  Claypole,  leaves  un- 
finished problems  upon  which  much  valuable  work  has  been  done. 
Too  often  the  results  of  such  work  are  lost  because  the  records  are 
filed  away  and  forgotten,  instead  of  being  placed  in  the  hands  of 
some  other  able  investigator  interested  in  similar  lines  of  research. 

Some  of  Dr.  Claypole's  friends  most  familiar  with  her  work  felt 
it  was  too  valuable  to  be  thus  lost.  They  wished  to  provide  for  the 
continuation  of  her  work  to  its  full  fruition.  They  also  desired  to 
establish  a  memorial  which  should  be  forever  a  worthy  tribute  to 
one  whose  gifts  to  humanity,  through  loyal  devotion  to  research, 
had  been  so  large.  These  friends  have  chosen  as  a  fitting  memorial 
to  her  love  for  humanity  and  her  ability  in  research,  to  increase  for 
all  time,  the  number  of  research  workers  in  Pathology,  her  chosen 
field  of  investigation. 

To  this  end,  they  have  created  by  gift  to  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia, "The  Edith  J.  Claypole  Memorial  Research  Fund  in  Pathol- 
ogy," the  income  of  which  shall  be  used  annually  under  the  joint 
direction  of  the  President  of  the  University  and  of  the  Professor  in 
charge  of  the  Department  of  Pathology,  for  the  encouragement  of 
the  investigation  of  problems  in  pathology,  preferably  by  women, 
particularly  in  the  field  of  the  diagnosis  and  specific  therapy  of  the 
infectious  diseases  of  man. 

The  deed  of  gift  provides  that  one  quarter  of  the  annual  income 
shall  be  added  to  the  principal  until  the  fund  amounts  to  twenty-five 
thousand  dollars,  after  which  all  the  income  shall  be  used  for  the 
purpose  named,  the  principal  being  kept  without  impairment.  It 
further  provides  that  additions  to  the  fund,  which  is  now  ten  thous- 
and dollars,  may  be  made  by  any  person  at  any  time. 

Until  this  fund  amounts  to  twenty-five  thousands  dollars,  one 
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of  the  friends  gives  annually  the  difference  between  the  income  for 
that  year  and  twelve  hundred  dollars,  so  that  beginning  with  the 
college  year  1915-1916  this  sum  has  been  available  for  research. 

Those  working  under  this  fund  are  appointed  Edith  J.  Claypole 
Research  Assistants  in  Pathology  at  the  University  of  California. 
The  appointees  are  continuing  research  on  the  problem  of  the  use 
and  efficiency  of  the  typhoid  vaccine.  During  the  year  1915-1916 
Dr.  Sanford  B.  Hooker  of  Boston  filled  this  position.  The  appointee 
for  1916-1917  is  Miss  Ruth  L.  Stone. 


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Singularly  beautiful,  singularly  unified  was  this  life  of  Edith 
Claypole.  To  those  who  knew  her  she  will  endure  as  one  of  the 
fairest  types  of  human  kind, — perfect  in  body,  rarely  gifted  in  mind 
and  heart.  In  the  hearts  of  all  mankind  she  will  live  for  what 
she  has  done.  Her  service,  inspired  by  a  vision  for  humanity 
wrought  through  years,  went  straight  to  the  heart  of  human  misery, 
found  its  place  in  the  field  of  preventive  medicine,  and  closed  for 
this  world  with  the  supreme  gift — life  itself. 

There  is  a  grief  for  the  loss  of  such  a  life — for  this  heart  so 
quick  to  relieve,  to  console,  to  share  a  comrade's  burdens,  for  a 
mind  so  keen,  so  clear-sighted.  But  such  a  life  in  its  fine  courage, 
its  high  nobility,  sounds  the  note  of  triumph  and  challenges  us  all 
to  reach  its  heights. 

Many  loved  truth,  and  lavished  life's  best  oil 

Amid  the  dust  of  books  to  find  her, 

Content  at  last,  for  guerdon  of  their  toil, 

With  the  cast  mantle  she  hath  left  behind  her. 

Many  in  sad  faith  sought  for  her, 

Many  with  crossed  hands  sighed  for  her, 

But  these  our  brothers,  fought  for  her, 

At  life's  dear  peril  wrought  for  her, 

So  loved  her  that  they  died  for  her, 

Tasting  the  raptured  fleetness 

Of  her  divine  completeness : 

Their  higher  instinct  knew 

Those  love  her  best  who  to  themselves  are  true 

And  what  they  dare  to  dream  of,  dare  to  do. 

James  Russell  Lozvell. 
A  life  count  closed***** 

Whose  good  is  quick  and  mighty,  far  and  near 
So  that  fruits  follow  it. 
*********for  countless  wealth 
To  lay  up  lasting  treasure 

Of  perfect  service  rendered,  duties  done 
In  charity,  soft  speech  and  stainless  days : 
These  riches  shall  not  fade  away  in  life 
Nor  any  death  dispraise. 

Edwin  Arnold. 
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Gaylord  Bros. 

Maker* 
Syracuse,  N.Y. 


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